Department Member, Humanities Institute of Ireland
Associate Fellow
About
Ian Russell is an international curator and researcher based in Ireland. He is currently the curator and coordinator of the 'Placing Voices - Voicing Places' project. He is facilitating a collaboration between contemporary artists, Sean Lynch and Ursula Rani Sarma, and contemporary academics and local government officials in the exploration of contemporary pasts in inner-city Dublin. He recently completed his directorship of the 'Abhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities' contemporary art exhibition series which occurred at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Newman House and University College Dublin as part of the 6th World Archaeological Congress in 2008.
He recently held a post-doctoral fellowship at Humanities Institute of Ireland at University College Dublin and, previous to that, the NEH Keough Fellowship of the Keough-Naughton Institute at the University of Notre Dame. In 2006-2007, he acted as post-doctoral research associate in the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin were he acted as administrator of the Digital Image Project - a frontiers research project in the fields of new media studies and humanities research.
He specialises in contemporary art and design, visual and material cultural theory, intellectual history, anthropological and archaeological theory and heritage studies. He recently published Images, Representations and Heritage (2006: Springer, New York), an edited volume exploring these interests.
He completed his Ph.D. in archaeology and history at Trinity College Dublin under Professor Terry Barry where he was the recipient of a Government of Ireland Broad Curriculum Studentship for teaching and a Trinity College postgraduate studentship. His doctoral research focused on the intellectual history of archaeology in Ireland and the impact of the scientific development of archaeology on social and cultural discourses in modern Ireland.
He currently collaborates with the Metamedia Lab at Stanford University on the study of new media, archaeological research and artistic expression.
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